The opening of the Master and Margarita novel is set at the nearby Patriarch’s Ponds and the park (pictured) where a sigh depicts three characters from the novel. The caption on the sign reads:

Russia's prominent science-fiction writer Boris Strugatsky. Source: ITAR-TASS

Shishkin started “Maidenhair” more than a decade ago, but had to rewrite it when he moved to Switzerland where he “translated words into destiny.” Source: PhotoXpress.

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s collection of scary stories “There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby” was a New York Times bestseller. Source: RIA Novosti.

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November 22, 2012

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